However, larger cages and flights will be appreciated by these energetic little birds.

British Dictionary definitions for cages

cage

/keɪdʒ/

noun

1.

an enclosure, usually made with bars or wire, for keeping birds, monkeys, mice, etc

(as modifier): cagebird

2.

a thing or place that confines or imprisons

3.

something resembling a cage in function or structure: the rib cage

4.

the enclosed platform of a lift, esp as used in a mine

5.

(engineering) a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing

6.

(informal) the basket used in basketball

7.

(informal) the goal in ice hockey

8.

(US) a steel framework on which guns are supported

9.

(informal) rattle someone's cage, to upset or anger someone

verb

10.

(transitive) to confine in or as in a cage

Word Origin

C13: from Old French, from Latin cavea enclosure, from cavus hollow

Cage

/keɪdʒ/

noun

1.

John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)

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cages in the Bible

(Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek _phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement.